John 5:1

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

In Context

2and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep -[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

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Cross References

Exodus 34:23'Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;

Deuteronomy 16:16'Three times in a year doth every one of thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which He doth choose — in the feast of unleavened things, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths; and they do not appear before Jehovah empty;

John 2:13And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

Matthew Henry on John 5:1

We have in the gospels a faithful record of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Acts i. 1 . These two are interwoven, because what he taught explained what he did, and what he did confirmed what he taught. Accordingly, we have in this chapter a miracle and a sermon. I. The miracle was the cure of an impotent man that had been diseased thirty-eight years, with the circumstances of that cure, ver. 1-16 . II. The sermon was Christ's vindication of himself before the sanhedrim, when he was prosecuted as a… Read the whole commentary →

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